I agree with you Chris.
I believe the solution is:
To think about it before - make a plan - act.
If you hang back and just try to stop evolution it will be like the Russian
revolution.
A poor solution, did not solve anything and the end result is a new
situation just as bad, which nobody deals with
"We march backwards into the future." --Marshall McLuhan
Ruby
On 7/21/15 2:19 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
"If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have
begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been
completely stated."
- Wilfred Trotter
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Old stuff goes out slowly as obsolete technology is elevated to Art.
The new stuff is released without thought or planning regarding the
effects on society, and can storm through culture like a virus.
Read Marshall McLuhan's War and Peace in the Global Village for more on
this idea.
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I disagree with you that it is a zero sum game, Steven.
development and inventions do create wealth and as a society we can decide
if the wealth should be distributed and how to distribute it.
Life is not fair. Some person might enter the software market and get hold
of a rather antiquated program
I continue to wonder about the pace of change and the fact that some change is
nonlinear, even catastrophic - unlike slowly fading coal mines. Such as:
1) Any antiaging breakthrough that adds even a few years to common lifespan
2) Any 'free' energy or really cheap new source
3)
See here why:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2015/07/lenr-complexity-dispute-plus-some-info.html
Some things cannot be changed but can be used well.
Greetings,
Peter
--
Dr. Peter Gluck
Cluj, Romania
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
...and as Robert A. Heinlein said: an insurance company is just a bookie--
let's call it what it is -- you make bets that something will go wrong.
From: James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:19 AM
To: vortex-l
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in st
The original libertarians in the US -- the 1800s frontier libertarians like
Lysander Spooner, understood legitimate government as a mutual insurance
company. An insurance company operating as government would charge an
insurance premium for the protection of property rights. This is
essentially a
I find it interesting to view this entire process as an interesting game in how
humans go about redistributing units of wealth across the planet.
The entire process, the mechanisms currently installed to initiate “wealth
distribution” has become so incredibly convoluted and obfuscated (intent
The sheer zeal and thoroughness of GM’s effort to remove all traces of the EV1
from human consciousness tells us all we need to know about their feelings
concerning profits and parts sales. They were forced – kicking and screaming –
into improving car reliability by Japanese manufacturers – a
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